Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly.
I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.